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If you feel like you’re constantly reorganizing your pantry, it might be time to rethink your storage. It doesn’t take much for a pantry to become disorganized, and this isn’t unique to homes across the Florida Suncoast. Kitchen pantries everywhere are easily cluttered, especially in households with larger families. If you’re ready to say goodbye to clutter and hello to a neatly arranged and tidy pantry, the experts at More Space Place are here to help!

Start With Shelving

There are many storage solutions you can employ when designing a custom pantry, and configuring your shelving is a good place to start. Adjustable shelves are perfect for creating flexible storage that can change along with your needs. Take inventory of what types of food and kitchen appliances, such as blenders, mixers, and toasters, you’ll need to store in your pantry. This can help guide your shelving design and make sure you incorporate enough space to accommodate everything.

Drawers & Cabinetry

In addition to the shelving system, drawers and cabinetry are great things to consider as part of your pantry’s design. Drawers work well for storing smaller items that tend to get lost or kitchen linens you want to stay clean. Cabinets contribute to a tidy appearance, as you can store things in them you want out of sight. You can also incorporate shelves inside your cabinets for further utility. You’ll be able to customize the look of your storage by choosing from a variety of colors and finishes, as well as different hardware for your cabinet handles and drawer pulls.

Fun & Useful Additions

Once you’ve decided on your main storage framework, you can start thinking about the smaller components that will really make your pantry special. Wine and spice racks, wire baskets, and hanging systems all add stylistic elements, but they also enhance the effectiveness and productivity of the space. These extra storage solutions help round out your pantry and help create a cohesive unit that will ensure you love spending time in your kitchen.

To learn more or to schedule a free in-home design consultation with one of our storage experts, contact More Space Place of Sarasota, Bradenton, and Port Charlotte today! Let this be the year you make your custom pantry dreams come true.

Like bedroom closets, we often find that our kitchen pantries don’t have enough space for all of the items we need to store in them. This can be a frustrating problem to have, especially if you have a large household with a lot of mouths to feed. At More Space Place of Sarasota, Bradenton, and Port Charlotte, we provide custom storage solutions that make the most of the space you have. We work with you to turn your cluttered and disorganized pantry into a highly functioning kitchen storage area. Read on to learn about some of the best ways to organize your pantry.

Storage Systems

There are many options for pantry storage systems. Between rotating and extending shelves, dividers, pullout baskets, and wine and spice racks, you can utilize different components to create a system to perfectly suit your storage needs. Are you tired of digging to the back of the dark and crowded cupboard to find the spices you need for dinner? Spice racks make it easy to quickly find what you need when you need it. Do you find old and stale chips buried under cracker boxes that you forgot you had? Shelves and dividers can help eliminate that problem. By building a custom storage solution for your pantry using the different storage elements, you’ll never discover old and moldy fruit in the forgotten pantry corner again.

Storing Items In Groups

After you’ve designed and installed your custom pantry storage setup, you can start arranging your food items. Grouping like items together is a good way to maintain organization. Store canned goods together on shelves in an area you designate for non-perishable food. Utilize similar containers for smaller snacks and treats that you can store side by side. This uniformity will make your pantry look clean and tidy while allowing for easy access of your food. Baskets work well for storing fruits and vegetables, as well as certain products that should be kept separate from food, such as cleaning supplies. Arranging your food in similar groups will help you keep track of the various goods and know exactly where to look when you need something.

The storage options at More Space Place are not only incredibly functional, but look great, too. You can choose from a variety of color, material, and style options to match your kitchen’s look. Call us today to get started and schedule your free in-home design consultation. Or if you’re out and about, stop by one of our showrooms in Sarasota, Bradenton, or Port Charlotte. We’re here to help with all your storage needs!

Any time a homeowner considers a home improvement project, two questions typically come to mind. Does this home improvement make the best use of the space I have? And, will I get my investment in the project back when it comes time to sell the house? Let’s take three popular projects and look at them through the lens of these key factors.

Home Office Build-Out. With the installation of unique home office furniture, it’s possible to create a workspace in a spare bedroom, or even in an unused corner in a larger room of the home. In the case of the bedroom, the home office build-out is a home improvement that promotes a dual purpose for a single space. That’s a particular benefit in smaller homes that have only one or two bedrooms.

While a home office build-out doesn’t rank as high on some home improvement lists, creating a space featuring unique home office furniture will often return about 70% of the money spent on it when the house sells. What’s more, it maximizes your home’s use of space at the same time.

Kitchen Remodel. On the space-saving side, a well-planned kitchen remodel will incorporate the most efficient ways for storing food, kitchen tools, cookware, plates, glassware, and the like. A kitchen home improvement project almost always takes place within its original footprint. This space often becomes a main gathering place at meal times, during parties, or just for a chat, so many kitchens are laid out to accommodate socializing.

In terms of recouping cost, the kitchen remodel has long been at or near the top of the list, with most of these home improvement success stories returning 90% or even 100% and up of the money spent on them.

Pantry Makeover. Because it’s stationed close to the kitchen, a pantry project and its costs are often folded into the kitchen remodel, so as a whole, a kitchen/pantry remodel should be well worth the money invested when a house goes on the market.

Where a well-organized pantry shines, of course, is in the efficient use of its space. Shelving, bins, cabinets, and racks placed properly in this comparatively small space make life easy for the head of the kitchen, or anyone else looking to find an item quickly.

The home office, the kitchen, or the pantry – upgrading any or all of these areas can add to the comfort and utility of a home. Whether you can resell the upgrade for close to its cost, and whether the remodel or makeover you’re considering is the best possible use of space, varies widely from home to home.

Stop by your local More Space Place showroom to examine our custom furniture for yourself. Our Staff is here to provide you with a FREE no-obligation design consultation, quotation and 3-D design drawing of your project.